facebook present & future by nick gonzalez
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Facebook Present & Future by Nick Gonzalez Presentation for Facebook Developer Garage Guayaquil, October 24th 2009TRANSCRIPT
FacebookPresent and Future
I’m Nick Gonzalez
• 1st employee at TechCrunch.com
• World’s most influential tech news site
• SocialMedia.com - 1st social advertising provider
• Ran publisher network and later marketing
• CheckFacebook.com
• Tracks international growth of Facebook
• Covered Co. - 1st strategic marketing consultancy for silicon valley
Why not MySpace Garage, or Google Garage?
There’s Something Different Happening Here
Fuctionality?Not the first social network
Scale?300 million people world wide.Well, Yahoo does half a billion.
A Social Utilityto
Social Platform
Facebook Today
Worldwide audience
CheckFacebook.com
Argentina - Largest South American FB Audience
Columbia is a close second
29.7 Mtotal
United States 90.5 million
United Kingdom 21.5 million
Turkey 14.3 million
France 13.5 million
Canada 13.0 million
Italy 12.3 million
Indonesia 10.7 million
Australia 7.1 million
Spain 6.9 million
Argentina 6.7 million
Top 10
Observations
• In North America and Western Europe, age distributions are 33% >34 years old
• Everywhere else, Facebook skews younger
Older Markets Have Older Users
Observations
• Facebook’s user translations made a big difference
• Germany went from 600K to 4M in one year
• MySpace shut down global offices during the same time
Lagging in Brazil, Germany, Russia, China
Facebook Saturation
Largest Competition
• Brazil - Orkut - 20 million users
• Attack of the Clones
• Germany - StudiVZ.com - 13 million total
• Russia - Odnoklassniki - 30 million
• China - QQ - 375M, 51.com - 130M, xiaonei - 40M
The Future of Facebook
Social Networkvs.
Social UtilityBigger plans
Social connections put to work
Value of Facebook
Profile Database
Connections
Personal InteractionTrust
Personal Identity
FilteringTargetingContext
Platform / Connect brings social utility to the web
Facebook is the new hyperlink
What do I mean?
Google 1998Page Rank
Find information based on ranking pages based on
how pages Linkmore links, better links
Facebook 2008Facebook Connect
discover information based on social
recommendationreal people, the one’s who page rank is supposed
to emulate
Impact
Facebook becomes a larger driver of quality traffic and engagement
Facebook drives more traffic to perez hilton than
google7 million monthly readers, 9% of traffic from FB,
7% GOOG
More than 2 billion photos uploaded to the site each
month
More than 2 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts,
notes, photos, etc.) shared each week
More than 3 million events created each
month
More than 45 million active user groups exist
on the site
It’s only getting bigger
Thanks